Woven-wire fence.



A. SCHNEIDER. WOVEN WIEE FENCE. APPLICATION IILD FBB.'27, 1911.

1,014,525. vPatented.12.11.9,1912- Mmm ALFRED SCHNEIDER, BOCKYILLE, CONNEG' Wovnnswinn FENCE.

V'Specification o Letters Patent.

Patented Jal1. 9. 1912.

Application filed February 27,1911.4 Serial No. 810,993.

T o all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, ALFRED SCHNEIDER, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Rockville, in the county of Tolland and -State of Connecticut, have Vinvented certain uew and useful Improvements in Woven- Wire Fences, of which the following specification.

This invention relates to an improvement in fence structures of the ln'nd in which is employed wire `netting composed of -inter- Woven strands of heavy wire each bent to y a zigzag shape and extending crosswise ot the fabric, that is from the upper to the lower longitudinal edgey of the structure.

|I he object of my invention is to provide for the lregular and uniform. erection of the wire fence structure irrespective of the surface irregularities of the land upon which it'may be installed', and to this end I providefor the formation in a4 simple and efficient manner of one or more tapering inserts or fillers of wire for use between any twol converging 'ordiverging sections of thefenceas will be hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings--Figurel is an elevation of a portionbf a fence structure of interwoven wire embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is an elevation of one of the tapering inserts or fillers. Fig. 3' is an elevation of a tapering strand of wire employed in the fabrication of one of said inserts o fillers.

A, B, C and D designate four sections of a wire fence structure, the sections A and D beingV indicated as erected on two different horizontal planes a, d, respectively, connect- Aed by two inclined planes b, c, and the sectionsB C being indicated as erected on such inclined planes in amanner to establish the continuity ofthe -fence structure.

'l designates vertical posts erected at or adjacent the angles of the planes, and 2 vertical posts arranged at intervals throughout the length of the fence structure; the succeeding angle posts 1 being illustrated as connected at their uppen ends by means of rods 3, which constitute, in effect, top rails.

Each of the sections A, D is composed of a series of interwoven attened helical wire members 4 extending from top to bottom of the web as usual, the ends of the respective sections being affixed in the present instance to the adjacent angle posts 1. There the surface of the land is even, or substantially so,-a single web 'of-uniformly interwoven fabric of great length may be em"- ployed for the construction of the fence,

but where' the land isundulating,fas 1for example, with abrupt rises or. dips, it becomes necessary t'o interruptthecntinuity of the .fabric by erecting it 1n sections and providing for their angular junction, the

number of sections employed being determined by the angularity and extentof the irregular surfaces.

' lhe two inclined sections B, C are em- ,ployedto meet the requirements of the. surface of the land herein illustrated. The wire fabric constituting the main portions of these sections B, C issimilar in construction to that employed forrtlie sections A,B,but the ends of such portionsare terminated in advance of the adjacent posts-1 (or of the ends of the sections A, B) so as vto leave tapering gaps or spaces. In pursuance of my invention veach gap or space iseiciently closed by means of acorrespondingly tapering insert or inserts 5 composed of interwoven wire 4fabric of novel construction which is or are joined 'tothe edge of the main section and either to the post or directly to the edge of the succeeding section of the vfence structure.

.Inthev drawing each end of the sectionB is illustrated as provided with a single insert 5, whileeach end of the section C is shown as equipped with a series of associated inserts.l Each insert is conveniently composed of interwoven flattened helical wire strands 6, but instead of the succeeding bends or convolutions 7 of each strand being of uniform width or diameter, as in thefabric of` the main sections, the succeeding bends or convolutions are of gradually reducedl width or` diameter, as indicatedv in Fig. 3, and hencevwhen the Vseries of strands y has been interwoven an appropriate tapering insert or ller is fabricated. The number of strands employed `in the insert. are, of course, increased or diminished as the angular space at the end of the"inclined fence section may require.

The wire inserts' or fillers 5, as I have termed them, may be completely constructed at the vfactory 'to meet the prescribed requireinents, or, if desired, the several strands to produce the same may be assembled by the workmen at or about the place of erection ofthe fence structure.

1. Theherein described insert strand for Wire fence structures7 said strand -being composed of Wire bent to a. zig-Zag shape with its/bends gradually reduced.

2. .The herein described insert strand for Wire fence structures, said` strand being composedof Wire bent into flattened helical form With its succeeding convolutions of gradually reduced diameter. i

3.'The herein described insert for Wire fences, said insert comprising a series of interwoven strands each bent to a Zig-Zag shape With its bends gradually reduced.

4. The hereindeseribed insert for Wire fences, said insert comprising a'series of in'- terWoven flattened helical strands, each of 15 'which has its succeeding convolutions of ALFRED SCHNEIDER. Witnesses:

L. T. TINGIEB, JOHN WV. VVATKrNs, D. J. McCAR'rHY. 

